9:33 daysman. The word “daysman” means “umpire” or “judge” or even better, “mediator.” Job fervently desired to argue his case, as it were, before God, but he realized that “He is not a man, as I am,” so there was no way that “we should come together in judgment.” How could there be a mediator between God and a man, unless that mediator could somehow be both God and man?